Woodworking for beginners; a manual for amateurs . i-lti. 557. Tools and Operations 409 will often have to do, whether for a kite or some small frameworkor for the timbers of a building. To join two or more boards or planks to make a wider surface,several methods can be used. Cleating, though strong and suit-able for all such work as drawing-boards, rough doors, and thelike, is often undesirable, both on account of the looks and be-cause the cleats may be in the way (see Cleating). The simplestway, without cleats, is to glue the jointed edges (see Jomiingand Gluing). Dowels can be used with th
Woodworking for beginners; a manual for amateurs . i-lti. 557. Tools and Operations 409 will often have to do, whether for a kite or some small frameworkor for the timbers of a building. To join two or more boards or planks to make a wider surface,several methods can be used. Cleating, though strong and suit-able for all such work as drawing-boards, rough doors, and thelike, is often undesirable, both on account of the looks and be-cause the cleats may be in the way (see Cleating). The simplestway, without cleats, is to glue the jointed edges (see Jomiingand Gluing). Dowels can be used with this joint (see Dowel-. FiG. 558. Fig. 559. ling)., or grooves can be cut and a strip or spline or tongue in-serted (Fig. 558). This last way can be done at the mill quickerand better than by hand. The edges can also be halved, or arabbet cut in each edge from opposite sides. The boardscan also be matched (see page 46), in which case it is notusual to glue them. All of these joints can best be made bymachine. To avoid the warping and change of shape to which wide piecesare subject, particularly when they are not middle boards (seeChapter III ), they are often built up of selected narrower pieces(Fig. 559). This is done for many things,— the frames of ma-chines, the tops of sewing-tables, drawing-boards, chopping-blocks, etc. Masts, bows, fishing-rods, and the like are sometimesbuilt up of selected pieces, the idea being that a better result canbe obtained by combining selected smaller pieces, that flaws anddefects (which are apt to occur in larger pieces) can be avoided,and that sometimes the grain can be
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